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Canadian investment regulator breach exposes 750,000 investors
A phishing-related incident exposed personal and financial information.
- Organisation
- CIRO
- Disclosed
- 14 January 2026
- Affected
- 750,000
- Data
- Personal and financial data
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- CM Alliance monthly roundup ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Canadian investment regulator breach exposes 750,000 investors”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 14 Jan 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-01-14-ciro-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: CM Alliance monthly roundup, https://halifax.citynews.ca/2026/01/14/ciro-says-about-750k-peoples-data-affected-by-cybersecurity-incident/.
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